NIGHTWISH Bassist / Vocalist MARCO HIETALA On Forthcoming Album - "I Think The Heavier Side Of The Band Has Been Brought Out A Bit More"
November 25, 2006, 17 years ago
In a recent interview with BW&BK; about the new TAROT album, Crows Fly Black, bassist/vocalist Marco Hietala - also the bassist/vocalist for NIGHTWISH - discussed the forthcoming Nightwish album, which is due out in 2007:
“We’re still working on it but most of the recordings are finished," Hietala reveals. "I actually did the last of the acoustic guitar stuff a few days ago and I was doing some bass stuff yesterday. So, all the guitar, bass and drum parts are done, and there are some keyboard parts that still have to be finished, but I guess Tuomas is waiting to take the tapes to London to reccord the orchestra so he knows how much room is left for the keyboards. We have quite a lot of music – 15 songs right now – so I’m doing quite a bit of singing, and there’s actually one song that will be done almost completely by me. When you compare the overall amount of the singing I do on this album to the previous ones, though, I think it’s pretty much the same."
"I think the new album is going to have that familiar atmospheric Nightwish sound," he adds, "but I think the heavier side of the band that has appeared on previous albums has been brought out a bit more and goes a little further."Watch for the full story on Tarot and Nightwish in BW&BK; #102.
As previously reported, Tarot will do a short German tour in support of Crows Fly Black in February. Dates are as follows, and Nightwish fans should be aware that the band will NOT be playing any of the band's songs in their set:
February
5 - Berlin, Germany at Columbia Club6 - Hamburg, Germany at Knust
8 - Koln, Germany at Underground
9 - Bochum, Germany at Matrix
10 - Munchen, Germany at Metropolis
12 - Stuttgart, Germany at Rohre
13 - Nürnberg, Germany at Hirsch
14 - Aschaffenburg, Germany at Colos-Saal
Crows Fly Black was released in Finland on October 27th and will be issued in the rest of Europe on January 19th, 2007.
